This panel aims to address the connection between film, form and/or genre, andthe politics of place as it reflects racial, cultural and/or national identityconstruction. Of particular interest is the way that modernist films produceor enact transregional connections across space, connections that can produce akind of geopolitical solidarity across marginalized populations but that canalso consolidate or enable domination. In exploring these hidden or missinggeographies of modernism, papers might address the following: translation andadaptation (linguistic, generic, or spatial transpositions of plot), ontologiesof place, the spatialization of contact zones, spatial relations andtemporality, editing and sound, the (dis)locations of particular auteurtraditions, architecture and mis-en-scene, genre and mobility, etc.

Email short abstracts (250 words) of papers and brief CV to Rebecca Walsh,rawalsh_at_duke.edu, by May 13.